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Well, that's the most random thing I've ever experienced at 1am on a Wednesday morning! Well, maybe not, but still quite surprising.
Was Pizza and Wine night last night except we decided to break away from our usual Tuesday night conventions and take a trip to the Dogs instead where we planned to munch on pie and peas and place a few bets based on how pretty the dogs' names were.
This all went according to plan (apart from the pie and peas part! Who knew you had to book a pie in advance?) So we came home with empty bellys and decided to settle in for a comfortable game of Texas Hold 'Em and a Chinese takeaway.
It was down to the last two of us and after almost a full bottle of wine I was beginning to slur my speech and my vision was far less that 20/20. However, when the kitchen cupboards began shaking rather violently and my dog hid under the table I naturally assumed that I had been spiked with a heavy dose of LSD.
I was wrong. And the rattling wasn't due to a heavy sesh my house mate and his lass were having either. There was a nice little congregation going on in my street though and our delayed realisation that it was an earthquake began to dawn on us! Because earthquakes are not naturally the first thing you think of when you're at the top of a hill in Sheffield.
So we had a watch of the news this morning and apparently it started in Lincoln and was quite a biggy- in the middle 5s on the Richter Scale. Well, it didn't last very long here and didn't cause any damage to our house, but I'm not sure how those flat packed houses will have fared!
Of course, I say that no damage was done, but it did interrupt a very important game of poker. Don't worry, I still won. Not even an earthquake can put me off. Five squid well earned.
Was Pizza and Wine night last night except we decided to break away from our usual Tuesday night conventions and take a trip to the Dogs instead where we planned to munch on pie and peas and place a few bets based on how pretty the dogs' names were.
This all went according to plan (apart from the pie and peas part! Who knew you had to book a pie in advance?) So we came home with empty bellys and decided to settle in for a comfortable game of Texas Hold 'Em and a Chinese takeaway.
It was down to the last two of us and after almost a full bottle of wine I was beginning to slur my speech and my vision was far less that 20/20. However, when the kitchen cupboards began shaking rather violently and my dog hid under the table I naturally assumed that I had been spiked with a heavy dose of LSD.
I was wrong. And the rattling wasn't due to a heavy sesh my house mate and his lass were having either. There was a nice little congregation going on in my street though and our delayed realisation that it was an earthquake began to dawn on us! Because earthquakes are not naturally the first thing you think of when you're at the top of a hill in Sheffield.
So we had a watch of the news this morning and apparently it started in Lincoln and was quite a biggy- in the middle 5s on the Richter Scale. Well, it didn't last very long here and didn't cause any damage to our house, but I'm not sure how those flat packed houses will have fared!
Of course, I say that no damage was done, but it did interrupt a very important game of poker. Don't worry, I still won. Not even an earthquake can put me off. Five squid well earned.
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